Social Interactions in Unemployment

Arbeitspapier

This paper studies the relevance of social interactions among the unemployed. Identification is based on a salient and selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference group. Moreover, this spillover effect of the policy should also be observed in the non-entitled group. Results indicate that there are strong indirect effects on the entitled, strong positive spillovers on the non-entitled, and that social interactions are about as important as the direct effects of the policy change.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 803

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Duration Analysis; Optimal Timing Strategies ; Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
• Subject: social interactions ; social multiplier ; unemployment ; quasi-experiment ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Soziale Beziehungen ; Arbeitsangebot ; Arbeitslosenversicherung ; Ökonomischer Anreiz ; Spillover-Effekt ; Regionale Arbeitslosigkeit ; Schätzung ; Theorie ; Österreich

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Lalive, Rafael
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2003

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20048
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET